Include date in the milestone label

Question

When the gantt diagram is on a big scale and the date is calculated, it would be fine and useful if the calculated date could be included in the milestone label with a syntax like [my beautiful milestone - **me.date(yyyy-mm-dd)**]

But maybe it is?

Answer 1

In the preprocessors section under built in functions: try %date("yyyy.MM.dd") let us know if that does NOT work.

https://plantuml.com/preprocessing#291cabbe982ff775

Comments

Thank you for your answer! But with your method I can insert the date of today, not the date of the milestone wich is calculeted by constraints.

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Can you provide an example?

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Hello T., and all,

Here is a possible example:

@startgantt
title Project on\n%date("yyyy-MM-dd")
project start 2022-12-01
[Task] lasts 5 days
[M happens the %gantt_date("yyyy-MM-dd")] happens at [Task]'s end
@endgantt

Regards.

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Hello !

Yes. Exactly.

But the relevance of this fonctionnality will be more obvious on a monthly or yearly scale.

@startgantt
title Project on\n%date("yyyy-MM-dd")
printscale monthly
project start 2022-12-01
[Task] lasts 95 days
[M happens the %gantt_date("yyyy-MM-dd")] happens at [Task]'s end
@endgantt

To get :

 

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While we are at it, why not request also, generic getter (`get`):

• %gantt_date (for Milestone or task)
• %gantt_start_date (especially for task)
• %gantt_end_date (especially for task)

Here is a proposal of use:

@startgantt
title Proposal\nfor new Builtin functions\nfor gantt
printscale monthly
hide footbox
project start 2022-12-01

[task1] lasts 10 week

[task2] starts 20 days after [task1]'s end and lasts 1 week
note bottom
note for task2
**%gantt_date(task2, "yyyy-MM-dd")**
task2 starts at **%gantt_start_date(task2, "yyyy-MM-dd")**
task2 ends at **%gantt_end_date(task2, "yyyy-MM-dd")**
more notes
end note

[M] happens at [task1]'s end
caption
Note for Milestone
M happens the:
**%gantt_date(M,"yyyy-MM-dd")**
more txt...
endcaption

@endgantt

To debate...

Regards.

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I feel like an explicit distinction between milestone and task might be better? Also why is there a start/end on task but not milestone?

While we are at that maybe %gantt_chart_start and %gant_chart_end for the whole thing?

I think if we go that route %gantt_start might be synonyms for %gantt_miletone_start or %gantt_task_start depending on the existance of a milestone.

Just my 2 cents, once considered, feel free to reject (I do NOT feel that strong on it).